Wednesday, April 19, 2017

I once had a urologist tell me that sticking a camera up my urethra was the non-invasive approach.

Afterwards I felt I had maybe been on the wrong end of an "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" dissimulation.

Anyhoo, here's what's going on in the Zuckster's world, via ZDNet:

Facebook shared plans to develop a non-invasive brain-speech
interface that would create a system--via sensors--to enable people to
communicate without speech. In a nutshell, you think and communicate
silently.

Regina Dugan, head of Facebook's Building 8 research
lab, acknowledged that these "silent speech interfaces" are "a few years
away." Building 8 is taking on two projects:

Type with your brain.Facebook wants to develop a silent speech interface
that provides the speed and flexibility of voice with the privacy of
text. This system has a goal of typing 100 words per minute straight
from the speech center in your brain. The approach would decode words
that you've already decided to share.

The project will rely on non-invasive sensors shipped at scale. Sensors
would measure brain activity without signal distortions. There are no
imaging sensors that can measure this way today. Facebook has a team of
more than 60 scientists, integrators and engineers working on the
project.

"How do I get all that information out of my brain and into the world?
What are my choices? Speech is essentially a compression algorithm and a
lossy one at that," said Dugan....MUCH MORE

All I can think of is "This looks like some horrible parody of a TED Talk."
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